Bruce is a 1-year-old Great Pyrenees Rhodesian Ridgeback in Kemp, TX, who needs $1,500 for tibial plateau leveling osteotomy.

Bruce is a puppy that my dog Lucky gave birth to two weeks before she passed away. I bottle fed him, I love him, I cherish him, but I was so heartbroken over her loss after twelve years that I wasn't sure I wanted another dog. Bruce was so sweet and begging to be loved tho, so I did. I do. I love him more than I knew it was possible to love an animal honestly. He means the world to me entirely.

Bruce is the most charismatic dog I've ever met. He gets along with literally any animal or person, and he's always looking for a new friend to scratch his belly when we go on hikes, go camping, or go swimming. He is a wonderful dog who tries too hard to herd my daughter and me away from anything he thinks is dangerous even if it's just a vaguely threatening stick in the grass. He is the sweetest.

I have an anxiety disorder, I'm struggling with grieving the loss of my grandpa after being his PCP for months, and I'm struggling with college due to both of those things. Bruce is the only thing that keeps me calm and I cannot lose him.

Bruce was taken from my home, missing for a week, and when he escaped and tried to come home he received some injuries from a wild animal that attacked him. Now he needs surgery to repair his left and right rear femur, and to have his ball joint placed back into its socket in one of his rear legs. The hospital is Morton's Small Animal Clinic in Athens, TX, and the doctor is Dr. Morton.

Bruce loves to say hello. When someone says, "Hi Bruce" he offers them his paw, presses his nose to theirs, and lays down on his stomach to get a belly scratch. Even with his back two legs broken it was the first thing that he did when he saw me after he'd been missing for a week, and it warms my heart. It was the only thing that kept me calm when my grandpa passed a few weeks ago.